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Article: Cloning efforts gaining momentum despite ethical concerns.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- December 18, 1998
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Successful cloning of humans is inevitable and will happen soon despite ethical objections to it, American scientists said Thursday, after learning of reports by South Korean fertility doctors that they had taken a major step toward cloning a human being.
The Korean team did not make a baby _ just a microscopic, four-cell embryo that it later destroyed. And it did not have genetic proof that this embryo was really a clone of the young woman whose cells the team used and could thus have developed into her identical twin.
But the announcement was the latest evidence that the pace of human cloning research is outpacing worldwide efforts to control it.
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